Archive: https://archive.today/wSxZX From the post: >>Congress passed legislation to force TikTok to divest from its parent company ByteDance - or face a U.S. ban - at record speed in March. Meanwhile, TikTok's main competitors Meta, Google and YouTube were working furiously behind the scenes to make sure nothing stood in the way of that, new disclosures suggest. Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, and Google, which owns YouTube, dumped millions into well-connected lobbyists to infiltrate Washington and knock out their top competitor.